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UNTTED STATES PATnNT @Triesa CARL FRIEDRICH HERMANN VEISSE, OF OTTENSEN, IItUSSIA, ASSIGNOR TO JOHANN HEINRICH EIILERS, OF BAIIRENFELD, GERMANY.

CAR-COUPLING.

ESPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 369,269, dated August 30, 1887.

Serial No. Q34, SG1.

T a/ZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, CARL FRIEDRICH HER- MANN Wnissn, a subject of the German Eniperor, and a resident of Ottensen, in the Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire, have in-A vented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Couplings, of which the following is a speeiication.

This invention relates to railway-car coupm lings which are actuated from the side of the car; and the objects of my improvements are to facilitate the coupling and uncoupling of cars and to provide a very secure connection of the same. I attain these objects by the mechanism shown in the accompanying drawings, in which-` Figure 1 is a top view of the ends of two cars coupled together and both provided with my improved coupling device. Fig. 2 is the 2o front view of my improved coupling device,

and Fig. 3 the side elevation thereof. Fig. 4

illustrates the manner of attaching the coupling-links of the one car to the hooks of the other.

Similar letters refer to si milar parts throughout the several views.

A is the coupling-hook, preferably provided with three arms, a c c?, of which the middle one, a, is a little shorter than the two outside 3o ones, a c?, in order to maintain a rigid oonneetion also when the ears are running on curves. TvVhen going straight on, the middle hook, u, has to stand the strain of the train, while the outside ones serve as safety-hooks.

Pivoted to the hook A by means of the bolt b are two arms, b', to the free ends of which is pivoted, by means of the bolt b2, the couplinglink B, provided with the actual coupling-loop and corresponding with the safety-hooks c and 4o u2, with two auxiliary loops. Triangular projections b* are attached to or formed underneath the outside arms of the link B.

The rod a, by which the hook A is connected with the car-body, is provided with 4 5 shoulders al as, which bear against coiled springs c5 c6. Thus the strain on the hook A will be elastieally communicated to the carbody, as the springs lie at the cross-bars d d',

respectively, of the car. The threaded part `,o c of the rod a3 serves to adjust the hook A in (No model.) Patented in Germany June 30, 1885, No. 35,806.

proper position and in proper tension toward the other car, as a nut placed between two cross-bars, dL d, and rotated by means of suitable chains, c c", and wheels c3 0*, causes the longitudinal motion of the rod a, for the abovedescribed purpose. The ch ain-wheels e304, being arranged at both sides ofthe ear and connected with hand-wheels c5 c, allow to adjust the position of the rod a3 from the longitudinal sides of the car.

To bring the link B of the one ear over the hook A of the adjacent car, there are two arms, E, attached at both sides of the link B to a shaft, c, resting in bearings e* on the front side of the car. The free ends of the arms E are connected by a holt, c', whereon the rollers eZ are pivoted. When the shaft e is turned suitably by means of one of the handles e, the arms E are raised, thus placing the rollers e: under the link B, which is thereby 7o lifted.

In the hanging-down position the front side, b5, of the triangle b" rests on the roller c2, as may be seen in Fig. 3, on the right-hand car. Thus the raising of the lifter-arms E lifts at first the link B, which then swings around the bolt b?, while the arms b remain still in their vertical position; but as the pivot of the arm E is in a lower position than the pivot of the arms b and behind the same the link B is suo- So cessively raised until the summit of the triangle Il* passes over the roller e?. Then the link B is pushed forward as the rear incline,

b, of the triangle t rolls down on the roller el, thus bringing the link B in proper position over the hook A, into which the link engages when the arm E is left free. To facilitate the motion of the arms E a counter-weight, e5, is attached by means of the arm c to the shaft c.

As a particular advantage of my improve- 9o ments, it will be understood that my coupling device can also be applied to old cars without altering the at present employed couplinghooks, and that a car provided with my iniproved coupling device can easily be coupled 9 5 with any ear having the ordinary coupling device, as well as with such cars already provided with my invention.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and roo in what manner the same is to be performed, In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my I declare that what I claim isinvention I have signed my naine,1n presence 1. In railway-car couplings, the combinaof two Witnesses, this 28th day of February, tion of the hook A with the link B, provided 1887.

5 with triangles b4, arms b', shaft e, and arms E,

Substantially as and for the purpose specified. CARL FRIEDRICH HERMANN WEISSE.

2. In railway-car Couplings7 the combination of the hook A and rod a3, provided with Witnesses: l the threaded part at, with the nut e, chains DrnDRrorr PErnRsEN, 1o c c2, chain-Wheels o3 c4, and hand-whee1s c5 c, ALEXANDER SPnoI-IT.

substantially as and for the purpose specified. 

